Category: The Great Outdoors
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“And then we were Boycotted”
New Discoveries about the Birth of Women’s Football in Italy [1933]
Part 7
The author would like to express thanks to Luigi and Francesco Ferrari for the images (taken from...
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Leisure in Alexandra Park:
The Ornamental Lake, Skating, and Fishing
Introduction An Ornamental Lake was an integral part of the designs for the new Alexandra Park...
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Making Sports Visible: Italian Sports Logos from Milan Archivio di Stato
PLEASE NOTE ~ All images are taken from: Milano, Archivio di Stato di Milano, Prefettura di...
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Barbara Cartland’s Sporting Exploits Revisited
Barbara Cartland: queen of the romantic novel with a passion for pink and traditional values, or a...
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‘A village falling into decay’ – How Dunoon Became a Popular Holiday Resort for the People of Glasgow.
Introduction Dunoon, is now the largest town on the Cowal Peninsular, however, in 1822, Hugh...
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‘For Me it’s Like Magic…’
Stories from The Bike Hive
This article, which follows on from ‘Cyling in Alexandra Park; [click HERE to read] takes...
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A Brief History of British Public Parks before 1870
Introduction In 2020, Alexandra Park, in southern Manchester, celebrates 150 years since its...
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Alexandra Park: 150 Years of the Park
Parks have always been important sites for leisure since the widespread development of municipal...
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The Arcane World of Working-class Canary Breeding in Victorian Britain
When I was a boy, quite a few coal miners in the pit rows of County Durham kept canaries. Canaries...
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‘Pen and paper quizzes, games and dances’:
Holiday making with the Co-operative Holidays Association and Holiday Fellowship
This podcast from Dr Douglas Hope, from a collection of short papers on aspects of sport and...
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Healing Landscapes:
Psychology and the Outdoor Movement in the 1920s
This podcast from Prof Melanie Tebbutt, from a collection of short papers on aspects of sport and...
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A Passion for Polo
Not the glistening white spherical mint with the hole in the middle, but the game played on...
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